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...Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) canceled a summer trip to North Korea last Thursday, citing low demand and problems with insurance and medical evacuation procedures. But some alums suspect an opinion piece published last week in The New York Post caused the cancellation. Typically closed off to foreigners, North Korea announced earlier this year that American citizens would be allowed to visit the country from Aug. 10 to Oct. 10 and attend the 2006 Arirang Mass Games, daily large-scale synchronized gymnastics performances. HAA first offered alumni the 12-day, $6,360 trip in late April. “While such...
...rescue effort unfolding above them would have involved-there's no doubt they coped better than would a desk-bound worker in a similar crisis. Also crucial was their having each other for company. In those grim days between the accident and contact with rescuers, "these men, I suspect, would have confided in each other things they'd never previously told anyone . . . that's what the fear of death does," says Beverley Raphael, who heads a University of Western Sydney unit specializing in mental health issues arising from disasters. And as married men and fathers of three, Webb and Russell...
...death of Harvard student Clarence D. “Duane” Meat ’05-’07 Wednesday morning, according to the Minneapolis Police Department. Detective Sergeant Mike Keefe, a member of the Minneapolis force’s homicide unit, said Friday that the suspect is believed to be a member of the Sureño 13 street gang. The suspect was also charged with second degree assault and felony possession of a pistol, said Keefe, who declined to release the teen’s name because he is a minor. Police do not believe that...
...causes. It's well known that there's a wide range in the severity of symptoms - from profound disability to milder forms like Asperger syndrome, in which intellectual ability is generally high but social awareness is low. Indeed, doctors now prefer the term Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). But scientists suspect there are also distinct subtypes, including an early-onset type and a regressive type that can strike as late...
...urine and tissue samples from 700 families with autism. He's testing for 17 metals, traces of pesticides, opioids and other toxicants. In March Pessah caused a stir by releasing a study that showed that even the low level of mercury used in vaccines preserved with thimerosal, long a suspect in autism, can trigger irregularities in the immune-system cells - at least in the test tube. But he does not regard thimerosal (which has been removed from routine childhood vaccines) as anything like a smoking gun. "There's probably no one trigger that's causing autism from the environmental side...